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Actors rebuild themselves in Architecting

06.11.09
What do you get if you combine corsets, cabaret and abstract dance routines? Architecting would be the answer... more

Celebrity cult in Dominic Hill’s Peer Gynt

05.05.09
After three hours, you'll certainly be feeling the pressure of Peer Gynt at the Barbican. ... more

Olivier for playwright with fresh stage plans

09.03.09
Sir Alan Ayckbourn, one of Britain's most popular and prolific playwrights, is set to do more work in London after the huge success of his Norman Conquests trilogy at the Old Vic... more

Grandage, the one-man hit machine

11.12.08
After the triumphant opening of his Twelfth Night last night, the Donmar’s artistic director tells how the play has been as good as therapy for him... more

Co-stars in contest for best actress at Evening Standard Theatre Awards

07.11.08
Comedy co-stars Penelope Wilton and Margaret Tyzack will go head to head for honours at this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

Heavyweights of the stage battle for best actor prize

04.11.08
Kevin Spacey, Alan Rickman and Kenneth Branagh are in the running for honours in this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

Atmospheric production of 365

17.09.08
365 is a spare, fluid, occasionally surreal work by David Harrower that examines the system of “practice flats” for young people.... more

Focus report: Get the inside track on London's art scene

26.08.08
If you ever wanted to find out what goes into creating a stage production, a musical performance or an exhibition, Open Rehearsal is returning at the end of September.... more

Scots design another winner with Architecting

12.08.08
Architecting is a witty and frequently surrealist piece delivered with verve by an attractive and enthusiastic young company.... more

Festival is backstage pass to the artistic heart of city

06.08.08
Hundreds of London theatres, museums and cinemas are throwing open their doors to give the public a weekend of behind-the-scenes access... more

Black Watch wins hearts

25.06.08
Gregory Burke's play showing the venerable Black Watch under fire in Iraq and under threat at home is rich, exciting, humane and moving.... more

The hottest tickets for the year ahead

04.01.08
From Kylie Minogue and masterpieces of Impressionism to an invasion of Chinese dance companies, the next 12 months will be a treat for London's arts lovers.... more

What an enjoyable tragedy

16.08.07
Greek tragedy has never been such fun as in The Bacchae, a play starring Alan Cumming as Dionysus.... more

Lost for words in a war zone

08.08.07
Damascus is essentially a play about how little we truly understand other cultures, and director Philip Howard keeps things ticking along nicely.... more

Inside a pair of evil minds

20.04.07
Aalst, an excellent, chilling work about child murder, challenges everything we thought we knew about what it means to be human, says Claire Allfree.... more

Courting controversy

06.02.07
The Royal Court should provoke, says its new director Dominic Cooke in his first interview, and he plans to do just that.... more

Real voices from front line

14.08.06
Gregory Burke's "unauthorised biography" of the Highlands' oldest regiment, Black Watch, is a superlative play, brimfull of theatricality, energy and style.... more

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